Danny, tell the guy to go scratch! I assume he is using a properly engineered
Exterior
TV Receiving Antenna? If not...I wouldn't give the guy the time of day. I had a
similar
Problem with a neighbor a few years ago...the end of the story is the FCC gave
ME a clean
bill of health, and told that guy to get cable, or install an outside antenna.
(He was
using rabbit ears!) Of course, I mounted an external antenna on the same
rooftop as
my tri-bander (my old QTH) about 25 feet horizontal spacing and showed NO
disruption in
TV signal at any power level or frequency. If you cannot demonstrate this at
your QTH then
you may want to consider remote control equipment. But if your signal is
clean...don't
give in!
73, J.P.
>Thinking seriously about remote operating, the amp and beam on Asia cannot
>cocoexist with my
neighbors prime time 5-11 TV evenings. No he doesnt want
>cable, and the old RCA he got rid of for his new $1000 whiz-bang TV was
>tvi proff, but not this new one! So.....anyone done successful HF remote
>TX and RX with off the shelf stuff? AEA has a box Ive listened to. Anyone
>have any software that emulates the front end of a rig on a computer screes?
>screen? Might feel stupid calling CQ DX on my phone handset ..but then
>again..it beats no CQing at all. Ill try and compile answers for anyone
>who is interested. Pse QSP any ideas, thoughts, or names. 73 Danny K7SS.mcimail
>
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J.P. Kleinhaus, AA2DU
ARRL Hudson Division C.A.C. Representative
E-mail: aa2du@netcom.com
aa2du@aa2du.slip.netcom.com
kleinhaj@iia.org
Compu$erve: 74660,2606
TVI??? What TVI???
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>From Norton, Richard" <nortonr@MRD.SRL.dsto.gov.au Tue Sep 6 17:27:00 1994
From: Norton, Richard" <nortonr@MRD.SRL.dsto.gov.au (Norton, Richard)
Subject: Request for Info: UA On-site Contests
Message-ID: <2E6C996B@msmail.dsto.gov.au>
Can anyone please provide information on the on-site contests held
periodically by the UAs?
Good things to cover:
1) How many on-site stations participate? How are they chosen? Are they
nominated by a local radio club? Are they in some way seeded or nationally
ranked so that the top so many are allowed to participate? Are there some
teams that would like to participate but are not allowed to? How many people
on a team?
2) Are they in tents or buildings or what?
3) Do they provide the tents themselves?
4) Do they set the tents and stations up by themselves? Are there team
members who set up but do not operate?
5) Do they bring their own equipment?
6) What is the allowable equipment? Is their a power limit? Is there a limit
to the number of simultaneous stations? Is there a limit to the number of
simultaneous receivers?
7) What kind of antennas are allowed? Do the participants set them up
themselves?
8) How long is the contest? What time of day in local time does it start and
end? Are the teams allowed to set up ahead of time? Is setting up time part
of operating time?
9) Are schedules allowed? Are private contacts with friends discouraged?
10) Are logs scrutinized very carefully? Are the operators watched by
judges? Do they tape record the contest? How long after the contest are the
results ready? Do they exchange claimed scores before the final results are
announced?
11) How close in distance are the stations to each other? Do they cause bad
interference to each other? Are some of the locations better than the
others? Why? If one entrant has a particularly bad signal that interferes
badly with others, is anything done to make him correct it?
12) Is there a detailed set of rules that applies to the event to cover
every situation, or very few rules - like US contests have?
13) For the most part, is there general agreement that the winner has indeed
beat the competition and deserved to win? Does the same team generally win
year after year? Is it a close contest?
14) Please add anything else that might be of interest, even if not
specifically asked for. Answers to even some of the questions would be
appreciated.
Thanks,
73,
Dick N6AA NortonR@MRD.SRL.DSTO.GOV.AU
>From Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW" <gswanson@arrl.org Mon Sep 5 19:06:00 1994
From: Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW" <gswanson@arrl.org (Swanson, Glenn, KB1GW)
Subject: Keep up the rate...
Message-ID: <2E6CB000@arrl.org>
In a follow up to K1TN: I operated for just 1/2 hour last nite (Sunday) and
had 70 plus folks call me with my KB1GW/125 call sign! (Up to 200 or so
now.) Unreal. 73 -- Glenn
>From fish@crl.com (Bill Fisher, KM9P Concentric Systems, Inc.) Tue Sep 6
>19:07:10 1994
From: fish@crl.com (Bill Fisher, KM9P Concentric Systems, Inc.) (Bill Fisher,
KM9P Concentric Systems, Inc.)
Subject: 160M dilemma
Message-ID: <199409061807.AA13679@mail.crl.com>
Given the following...
A 115 foot tower guyed with Phyllistran with the following antennas:
125' - 402CD rotary
115' - 6 el KLM 10M rotary
85' - 204BA fixed to EU
65' - 402CD fixed to EU
35' - 204BA fixed to EU
This tower will also support a 4 square wire array for 80m.
What to do on 160M? I want to use elevated radials if it's a vertical.
Idea #1 (de K3LR): Run a wire to the top of the tower at whatever angle
will put the bottom of the wire far enough off the ground to run 4 elevated
radials. I believe Tim said this is what K8AZ is running and is very happy
with the system.
Idea #2: Shunt feed the entire tower. Harder to predict what will happen
here. Also, the elevated radials will probably interact with the radial
system for the 80m array.
Idea #3: Inverted L. 95' of vertical and still fed 20' off the ground!
Radial problem still a possible problem interacting with the 80m system.
Idea #4: Half sloper. My 80m half slopers at my current QTH work great!
The key here is the top hat (40m beam). I was also reading in ON4UN's new
book that some Italian that was on a hilltop was using this antenna with
great success.
Other ideas? Your thoughts? This is a hilltop location. 250' of drop
within 1500' of this tower in all directions.
Thanks alot guys, I don't know what I'de do without ya! I'll post the
responses in a summary if there is enough info of value in it for everyone.
---
Bill Fisher, KM9P
Concentric Systems, Inc. (CSI)
404-442-5821 Fax 404-667-1975
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